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Why do you think director comey wrote a memo to the file about it? because he was so appalled that a president of the united states would behave in this way. close it down is an instruction to stop investigating president trump's campaign. richard nixon was impeached in 1974 for telling the fbi to stop an investigation of his campaign. that's what watergate was, and, you know, if comey was telling the truth in this memo, and obviously there's a dispute about that from the fbi -- from the white house, but if he's telling the truth, i don't know how anyone can see this comment in anything but ob...

That he had with the president so this could be just the tip of the iceberg. maybe the most explosive, but it's very clear that -- that james comey wanted to get out there that this happened, created this paper trail realtime, contemporaneously rather in order to protect himself from exactly what happened last week, him being fired, him being blamed and -- and, you know, wanting to know that he has sort of the information at his disposal if in fact this happened, and if you just take a step back, wolf, just in the past 24 hours, right or wrong, what this president has done, his first 100 plus ...

The "new york times" has not viewed a copy of the memo which is unclassified, but one of mr. comey's associates read parts of the memo to a "times." reporter. quote, i hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting flynn go, mr. trump told mr. comey, according to the memo, quote, he is a good guy. i hope you can let this go. david axelrod, your reaction. >> well, look, i echo what jeffrey said in that this is -- you know, i've been i've not been one to sort of ration to the whole impeachment discussion. i think that has been overblown to this point, but this becomes a very seri...

Or worse that it can't trust the president of the united states with information, that obviously has very serious repercussions and particularly if we're talking about information about a threat to americans posed by isis. >> reporter: as part of its evolving defense, the president's national security adviser said today that the president did not even know the origin of the intelligence. >> the president wasn't even aware, you know, of where this information came from. he wasn't briefed on the source or method of the information either. >> reporter: today former cia director leon panetta slamm...

Sensitive information, giver it to the united states. the united states then gives the information to the russians. as you know, the russians are working very closely in syria with the iranians, with hezbollah, two enemies of israel. the israelis all of a sudden get very nervous that all of a sudden the information they shared with the u.s., iranians might get that information from the russians, hezbollah, the lebanese group might get that information from the russians. does that concern you? >> two points. first of all, you heard what the israeli ambassador has said. i believe it. this is not...